Produzione di serie storiche con il telerilevamento satellitare: uno strumento innovativo per la gestione sostenibile della molluschicoltura?

Global aquaculture production in increasing over the last years, but official statistics frequently under-report the real data due to the illegal farming and the unregulated market. Recent advances in remote sensing technology allow us to view aquaculture and fishery practices from space. Here, we used remote sensing to count mussel culture plans in the First Inlet of Mar Piccolo of Taranto from 1988 to 2015. The results evidenced the unreliability of officially reported statistics and provide the first example of mussel culture production