Syria contends that the late Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin agreed during lower-level peace talks that stalled in 1996 to return the Golan, a water-rich region that overlooks the upper Jordan River valley.
But it clearly occurred to some of these displaced farmers that the slow-moving waters of the lower Tigris and Euphrates, near sea level, could be diverted using canals and used to water crops.
The company said amoebic gill disease is partly explained by higher water temperatures than usual and the high level of salinity, leading to increased mortality of fish, lower growth and increased production costs.