Many school children in the coastal areas of the Central and Western Regions are reported to be skipping classes to go fishing, with the on-set of the herring season, reports the Ghana Palaver.

Jahn Hackman, Senior Coordinator of the Ghana National Commission on Children (GNCC) in charge of the two regions, who was speaking to the Ghana News Agency on Tuesday, said reports reaching the GNCC indicate that some of the children loiter at the beaches.

He said if the practice were not checked, the education of the children would be affected because although some of them return to school after the herring season, others drop out of school permanently.

GNCC, he said, would soon hold discussions with Chief Fishermen and other stakeholders to check the trend.