Turtles washed up not ‘mass stranding’, authorities say

A couple of dead turtles or fish do not constitute a “mass stranding”, the Department of Fisheries and Marine Research has said regarding reports that turtles had washed up on Pervolia beach in Larnaca.

The department put the sighting down to an isolated incident and pointed out that turtle deaths were not always the result of human intervention.

Referring to Thursday’s press reports, the department said they refer to two dead turtles and one or two fish, which “may be independent...