Fish for D.
At the request of Refuter, here are some fish. Actually, I do not have any images of the ones caught by the kids behind the house. These were caught in a gillnet which was stretched perpendicular to the current, along the border between a rice field and a pond in a completely flooded landscape.
When the heavy rains hit the mountains in the neighboring province a few weeks ago, all of this water flowed downhill into rivers and onto the floodplain. Many people have lost at least a portion of their rice crops, because this wash of rainwater came about a month early. So in many fields, the rice was not yet tall enough to withstand the flooding. Next year, many families in the village will have problems both with having enough rice to eat, as well as seed for planting. Ironically, there has been little rainfall the village itself.
This early flood also brought a flush of riverine fish out onto the floodplain, into the waiting nets of fishers. For a week or so, harvests were pretty good. However, the water level has since dropped and fewer fish are moving from the rivers onto the floodplain. Catches are now generally small, both in the total weight of the catch, as well as the average size of any one fish caught.
The water under the house from my earlier post has drained, so the kids have taken their fishing elsewhere.
