A boy checks Siamese mud carps in his floating basket on the Mekong River in Siphandon, southern Laos. The riverbanks of the Mekong channels in Southern Laos play host to a frenzy of activity as huge number of tiny fish make their annual migration to the upper Mekong in January. In Sohong channel, people from Don Sadam are waiting for the big migration to come in the following days.