1.   They have become so successful that even former seal hunters now guide travelers on the ice floes.

2.   On the ice floes of Newfoundland, Greenpeace volunteers placed their bodies between the gaffs of the seal hunters and the helpless seal pups.

3.   An American seal hunter, Nathaniel Palmer, also claimed a sighting that year.

4.   Norwegian seal hunters greeted the news with satisfaction.

5.   The government also has toughened its regulations, requiring seal hunters to go through a two-year apprenticeship before becoming full-fledged commercial harvesters.

6.   The seal hunters say that in the long run it would not be possible to sell furs from adult seals unless they also could offer baby seal furs.

7.   Both traditional fishermen and seal hunters fear that the ecological balance of the sea could be destroyed with the stock of sea mammals increasing in uncontrolled fashion.

8.   But IFAW spokesman A.J. Cady accused the government of colluding with the seal hunters.

9.   Canadian Fisheries Minister Fred Mifflin suggested Wednesday that a film showing Canadian seal hunters bludgeoning a seal to death and skinning another alive was staged.