Etel is a commune of the Morbihan. Étel gives its name to an aber, Étel river or Étel estuary, which ends in a dangerous underwater sandbank, known as the bar of Étel, which breeds a tidal bore. Étel enjoys a small territory between the river Sacch, which separates Belz d'Erdeven, and the stream of the Ré by the dunes of the Cliff. The coastal coastline of the commune is part of the largest dune cordon of Brittany which extends from the point of Gâvres to the fort of Penthièvre on the commune of Saint-Pierre-Quiberon. The creation in 1850 of an "establishment to confite the sardine" in Étel was at the origin of the growth of the sardinian port, turning the small fishing village into a small town. After the sardine crisis that struck Etel like all the other sardine ports on the south coast of Brittany, imitating the sailors sailors, Étel is reconverted in the tuna fishing practiced aboard the dundee and that of the mackerel. Sources wikipedia
