Integrating fish into irrigation infrastructure projects in Myanmar: rice-fish what if…?

Rice, fish, and the planet.

I n 2002, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization launched a program to recognize “globally important agricultural heritage systems” (1). However, so far, only eight systems have been included (1). In PNAS, the work by Xie et al. (2) reports the results of a 5-yr study of one of the systems, a farming system in south China, where for over 1,200 y, farmers have grown an indigenous s...

Five newly recorded Cyprinid fish (Teleostei: Cypriniformes) in Myanmar

Freshwater fish from the Putao and Myitkyina areas were collected in three ichthyofaunal surveys of the Mali Hka River and tributaries in and around Khakaborazi National Park and Hponkanrazi Wildlife Sanctuary, Kachin State, from 2014-2016. Tor yingjiangensis Chen et Yang 2004, Tor qiaojiensis Wu et al. 1977, Garra qiaojiensis Wu et al. 1977, Garra bispinosa Zhang 2005, and Schizothorax oligole...

A Basinwide Perspective on Entrainment of Fish in Irrigation Canals

—Entrainment in irrigation canals has been considered a major source of mortality for some fish populations. However, the magnitude of fish loss from entrainment is usually not evaluated from a basinwide perspective, thus precluding an assessment of populationlevel consequences. We incorporated such a perspective in evaluating entrainment losses of Bonneville cutthroat trout Oncorhynchus clarki...

Fish in Irrigation Supply Offtakes: A literature review

What If A Fish Got Drunk? Exploring the Plausibility of Machine-Generated Fictions

Within the WHIM project, we study fictional ideation: processes for automatically inventing, assessing and presenting fictional ideas. Here we examine the foundational notion of the plausibility of fictional ideas, by performing an empirical study to surface the factors that affect judgements of plausibility. Our long term aim is to formalise a computational method which captures some intuitive...