http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2005/03/29/975780-cp.html CHARLOTTETOWN (CP) - A hunter aboard a sealing vessel used a rifle to fire several shots into the sky Friday as a group of sealers and protesters clashed amid the ice floes on the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
The violent confrontation - the second in as many days - happened after three helicopters carrying anti-sealing activists and photographers landed near the boat, off the north coast of Prince Edward Island.
At first, about six sealers hurled verbal abuse at about a dozen protesters and observers, some of whom were members of the International Fund for Animal Welfare.
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