One of the biggest challenges for the salmon farming industry is dealing with fish escapes, but 2020 marked a decline in the struggle, especially in Norway.

Norway's Directorate of Fisheries reported a total 20,028 escaped farmed salmon from sites in 2020, a 93 percent decrease compared to the year prior.

The only recent year with fewer recorded escapes than 2020 was 2017, when just 17,187 fish escaped from Norwegian fish farms.