On the other hand, the sympathies of the Song poet Mei Yaochen lay with the fishermen and their grueling lives. One of his poems (called "Shi Fish," after a species now known as the Reeve's shad) reads: "In April the shi fish ride the waves in; the fishing boats rise and fall in the troughs and crests.
宋朝詩人梅堯臣寫「鰣魚」詩，同情的卻是辛苦的漁民，「四月鰣魚連浪花，漁舟出沒浪為家。