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With the stress placed on our natural resources, many fisheries increasingly rely on restocking from hatchery‐reared sources in an attempt to maintain commercially viable populations. However, the mortality rates of hatchery‐reared fishes during the period directly following release are very high. The successful development of restocking programs is consequently dependent upon production and release strategies that lead to improved migratory, antipredator and feeding behaviour in hatchery fish. While relevant individual experience prior to release might improve performance, social learning potentially provides a process whereby fish can acquire locally adaptive behaviour rapidly and efficiently. It is now well over a decade since Suboski & Templeton (1989) raised the possibility of using social learning processes to improve the post‐release survival of hatchery‐reared fishes. This period has witnessed …