BRUSSELS, Belgium - About 250 anti-seal hunt protesters rallied outside the European Union headquarters in Brussels on Tuesday.

The protesters are demanding that the 27-country EU impose a total ban on all imports of seal products from Canada and other countries that have annual sea culls.

Tuesday's demonstration coincided with the opening of the seal hunting season in Namibia.

The EU is under pressure from animal rights groups and legislators at the European Parliament to take action over the seal hunt, which they say is cruel and inhumane.

The activists have called for a total hunting ban that would affect Canada, which has the world's largest commercial hunt, along with Russia, Namibia and Greenland and EU members Finland and Sweden.

The EU's environment commissioner, Stavros Dimas, is expected to propose a partial ban. It would prohibit the sale of products from seals the EU determines have been killed inhumanely, or culled in hunts that it considers not sustainable.

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