Statutory reporting of escapes was introduced in 2002.The following is a corrected answer (published on 23 October 2006); see below.Lewis Macdonald: The number of reported escapes from Scottish fish farms in each year since 1999 has been; 273,863 (1999), 501,981 (2000), 94,010 (2001), 449,805 (2002), 161,022 (2003), 92,647 (2004).