Matt Peavey is a commercial fisherman and captain of the F/V Anne Louise homeported in Craig, a town on Prince of Wales Island. Matt started fishing on his father's troller, the F/V Patsy, when he was just nine years old. Matt is a salmon troller at heart, but as his family grew, he expanded into longlining for halibut and black cod (sablefish). He recently switched from using baited hooks to slinky pots for black cod. The slinky pots reduce whale depredation and are collapsible, which helps with the limited deck space on smaller vessels like F/V Anne Louise. Matt's son, Steven, started fishing with him at a young age and continues in the family tradition as a commercial fisherman now on his own gillnetter.