Bas Pont-Scorff

This ancient street, called casse-cou (breakneck) due to difficulty of access for teams of horses, was by-passed in the 19th century to facilitate traffic. At the time and until after the war, millers, professional salmon fishermen, poachers, washerwomen and brewers all worked in Bas Pont-Scorff. Each door leads into a shop: cafés, butchers’ and grocers abound... but also hotels and inns to welcome travellers. After 1990, tourism and environmental activities developed on the site. At the Moulin des Princes, the mission of the counting station of the National Institute for Agronomic Research and the Morbihan Fishing Federation, is to count migrating fish. The observation targets salmon especially, that leave the river Scorff to feed in the North Sea, coming back to spawn in the spring.