1.   Seal pelts are thin to the point of transparency and seabird chicks are too weak to stand.

2.   He is among Greenlanders who say it is time to revive the trade in seal pelts.

3.   Though market prices for seal pelts remain low, partly because of the American ban, there are signs of change.

4.   Protests resulted in a European ban on the import of seal pelts, driving large commercial sealing ships out of the business.

5.   The government has been under pressure from the seal-hunting industry, which said its stocks of valuable seal pup pelts had run out.

6.   The government will allow the valuable seal pup pelts to be sold, leading to claims that the research hunt is really a commercial hunt.