How to prevent tabulated outputs of functons being messed up when using 'watch' over ssh?

Question

While ssh-ing into my server I want to be able to monitor for activity over certain port using netstat. Instead of running it manually I want to automate it with watch. While the command (sudo netstat -apon | grep 44002) running by itself gives the right output

tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:44002         0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      1750/sshd: mainuser  off (0.00/0/0)
tcp6       0      0 ::1:44002               :::*                    LISTEN      1750/sshd: mainuser  off (0.00/0/0)

when combined with watch the output gets garbled looking roughly like:

tcp        0                                0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN                 1
c2-user  off (0.00/0/0)
tcp6
c2-user  off (0.00/0/0)
 0 ::1:44002

I suspect this has something to do with the witdh of the terminal not being handled properly. How can I fix this?