The sardines, goddess of plates and tins in France

There is a harbor, ( in Brittany)  a bay where sardines meet every year from April to September, as if ending their lives there and their journey in a tin was a sweet dream.
As if in theses small cans, tightly packed with their buddies, the pleasure of being tasted, many months, years after even prolonged their existence a little. 
Ten years of maturing is meant to be the ideal for a vintage box to taste all the confit flavor...
All this a bit poetic , you ask? Why yes, if you never had a tin of these special vintage sardines then you don't know what a sardine is and these sardines, these little clupeidae's ( that's sardines to you) has nothing in common with its comrades!.