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Correction: An earlier version of this dispatch stated that Bristol Bay commercial fishermen harvest forty million sockeye annually. The text has been clarified to state that the total run exceeds fifty million fish, with commercial harvest accounting for thirty-eight million.

Clarification: Glomalin was initially discovered in 1996 by USDA scientist Sara F. Wright, rather than 1998 as stated in the introductory historical footnote.