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OSLO––The Norwegian government opened the 2005 Norwegian sealing
season to foreigners, anticipating a trophy hunting bonanza, but “Only
17-18 foreign hunters signed on,” reported Aftenposten on March 14,
while protests against the hunt were held outside 22 Norwegian embassies.
Pitching the hunt to tourists was not popular with Norwegian tour promoters.
“It is completely unnecessary to provoke world opinion with something
as marginal as tourist seal hunts,” Destination Ålesund &
Sunnmøre head of travel Terje Devol told Aftenposten.
“If the media focus remains on the seal hunt, we will see it in our
tourist statistics," Norwegian Hospitality Association director Knut
Almquist told the rival newspaper Dagsavisen.
