Dead sea turtles keep washing ashore on India's east coast and environmentalists and authorities are trying frantically to stop the number of 600 dead from getting even higher.
The high number of turtle deaths in Chennai in southern India is most likely due to overfishing just off the coast, experts say, sparking discussion and anger in the region over how the deaths could be avoided. But fishers say that tougher conditions — from warmer waters to higher operating costs — has forced them into a corner. Government officials on and off the coast say they have intensified their monitoring of illegal fishing since high amounts of dead turtles started washing up onshore.
