  We present results concerning the occurrence of Seyfert galaxies in a new
automatically selected sample of nearby Compact Groups of galaxies (UZC-CGs).
Seventeen Seyferts are found, constituting ~3% of the UZC-CG galaxy population.
CGs hosting and non-hosting a Seyfert member exhibit no significant
differences, except that a relevant number of Sy2 is found in unusual CGs, all
presenting large velocity dispersion (sigma > 400 km/s), many neighbours and a
high number of ellipticals. We also find that the fraction of Seyferts in CGs
is 3 times as large as that among UZC-single-galaxies, and results from an
excess of Sy2s. CG-Seyferts are not more likely than other CG galaxies to
present major interaction patterns, nor to display a bar. Our results
indirectly support the minor-merging fueling mechanism.
