Large nets are a problem in one other way. When they are lifted out of the water, the pressure on fish near the net from about a third of the height down is so great that they are rendered unmarketable and end up as fish pellets, fertilizer, etc, or are dumped in order the get marketable fish while staying within tonnage limits.

An old Newfie I knew used to say that every fish he caught was saleable. But, who's gonna run a codline these days?

Another thing about nets... when a synthetic net is lost or dumped because it's damaged, it fishes the ocean for two hundred years.