1.   Experts are blaming busier boat traffic spurred by two months of good weather for an increase in turtle deaths in Palm Beach County and the Treasure Coast.

2.   Federal officials are not sure all the more recent turtle deaths were caused by humans, Oravetz said.

3.   In response to the turtle deaths, the marine fisheries agency has quickly deployed personnel from Florida and other points to the Texas coast.

4.   Texas shrimpers say the government is blaming the wrong people for the turtle deaths.

5.   The more stringent regulations were imposed on shrimpers working areas offshore of Texas which have historically experienced high numbers of turtle deaths, Oravetz said.

6.   Mohanty blamed the turtle deaths on government inaction.

7.   The Environment Secretariat said the plant, located in the Ojo de Liebre lagoon on the Baja Pacific coast was responsible for turtle deaths in December.