"We are changing the world in so many ways at once, " says another of the authors, Professor Bill Laurance of James Cook University.

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People in moderately developed places that have few amenities such as road, schools and electricity often tend to depend less on fishing, but they also have more access to engine-powered boats, spear guns, and other technologies that can rapidly deplete some fish species, said Joshua Cinner of James Cook University in Australia in the report.

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Mrs Reed, of Houghton-le-Spring, died from her injuries at the James Cook University Hospital, Middlesbrough.

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