We all know that fish are 95% instinct and 5% experience. Nature has given them their survival instincts for millions of generations. Now those survival instincts are somehow negated by one generation raised in concrete tanks? To me, that doesn't make sense. Many other animals that rely on instinct have been re-introduced successfully to the wild. And that's basically the same thing that happens with hatchery fish. They raise them in captivity, and toss them out into the wild streams. The same happens with other gamefish such as bass, and they don't have any trouble reproducing. The carp and walleye that inhabit the big C originally came from hatcheries or captive stock, and they haven't had a problem reproducing either.

Do hatchery salmon reproduce with other wild salmon? That's the question. Going off of experience with other animals indicated that they would. I'm interested in where these facts come from. Can anyone point out specific studies?