South Carolina Commercial Seafood Apprenticeship Program
- CSAP is a one-month, paid job training program based in McClellanville, South Carolina.
- The third cohort of apprentices starts on May 4, 2026, with students from across the state.
- This is a critical program for an industry facing challenges.
- This program is federally funded by the NOAA National Sea Grant Office and the USDA Rural Business Development Grant Program, which currently face budget cuts.
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CSAP’s graduating class of 2025, from left to right: Grayson S. Reynolds; Robert C. Murray; Colby Gavigan; Khalil R. Johnson; Emily G. Watts; Conner Bostwick; Carson S. Sparks; Emily Grace Dunn; Abigail Krug; Quintin Smalls; Emily A. Hansen. Photo credit: Hailey Murphy/S.C. Sea Grant Consortium.
CSAP’s graduating class of 2025, from left to right: Grayson S. Reynolds; Robert C. Murray; Colby Gavigan; Khalil R. Johnson; Emily G. Watts; Conner Bostwick; Carson S. Sparks; Emily Grace Dunn; Abigail Krug; Quintin Smalls; Emily A. Hansen. Photo credit: Hailey Murphy/S.C. Sea Grant Consortium.
2025 apprentices boating out to a clam farm off the coast of McClellanville. Photo credit: Hailey Murphy/S.C. Sea Grant Consortium.
CSAP instructor and McClellanville waterman Pete Kornack wading into a creek on part of his private lease where he harvests wild clams. Photo credit: Hailey Murphy/S.C. Sea Grant Consortium.
2025 CSAP apprentices enjoy the wind while boating out to harvest clams with instructor Pete Kornack. Photo credit: Hailey Murphy/S.C. Sea Grant Consortium.
2025 apprentices posing for a group photo on the water. From left to right: Quintin Smalls; Conner Bostwick; Colby Gavigan; Khalil R. Johnson; and Emily G. Watts holding freshly harvested clams. Photo credit: Hailey Murphy/S.C. Sea Grant Consortium.
2025 apprentices wearing red immersion suits and floating in the creek to practice drills for water evacuation training. Photo credit: Audrey Cooper.
2025 apprentice Emily A. Hansen wearing a personal flotation device, taking in the salt marsh landscape. Photo credit: Hailey Murphy/S.C. Sea Grant Consortium.
Livingston’s Bulls Bay Seafood clams harvested with the help of the 2025 CSAP cohort cleaned, bagged, tagged, and packaged on ice ready to be brought to market for sale. Photo credit: Hailey Murphy/S.C. Sea Grant Consortium.
2025 apprentices Conner Bostwick and Colby Gavigan rinsing and harvesting mariculture clams. Photo credit: Hailey Murphy/S.C. Sea Grant Consortium.
2025 apprentice Emily G. Watts passing a small whelk to classmate Emily Grace Dunn. Photo credit: Hailey Murphy/S.C. Sea Grant Consortium.
2025 apprentice Abigail Krug holding a half dozen wild clams, standing in a tidal creek. Photo credit: Hailey Murphy/S.C. Sea Grant Consortium.
2025 CSAP apprentices touring a shrimp trawler in week one of the program. Photo credit: Jocelyn Juliano.
2025 CSAP apprentices practice using signal flares in case of emergencies on the water. Photo credit: Audrey Cooper.
2025 commercial seafood apprentices returning to shore with the day’s haul of wild oyster clusters with CSAP instructor and McClellanville waterman Bob Baldwin. Photo credit: Audrey Cooper.
2025 apprentice Emily Grace Dunn wearing an immersion suit just before water evacuation training. Photo credit: Audrey Cooper.
2025 apprentice Quintin Smalls with a bag of freshly harvested clams ready for tagging before going to market. Photo credit: Hailey Murphy/S.C. Sea Grant Consortium.
2025 apprentice Khalil R. Johnson practicing welding with instructor Luke Morris. Photo credit: Jocelyn Juliano.
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