Jan responds:
Right. Trawlers sometimes use gear like this to make fish "break" from the
bottom up into the water column (and into their nets). It also has the
bonus of dislodging embedded materials and making objects less likely to
snag lead lines, tearing nets. We seined shallow water, so chains did not
tend to pull float lines under the surface.
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