Photo: Seal Hunt in Canada Opens on Thin Ice

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A hunter uses a hammerlike pick called a hakapik to kill a harp seal on an ice floe in the Gulf of St. Lawrence on April 1, 2005. Canada's controversial commercial hunt of harp seals begins its 2006 season this weekend.

Photograph by Paul Darrow/Corbis

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