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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

This paper presents a case study of the La Salata geoarchaeological site (National Park of Gargano, southern Italy), where the cultural value of the necropolis is in addition to that geological, linked to the presence of one of the most beautiful Mediterranean exhibitions of Eocene bioclastic limestone facies at Nummulites and the presence of karst landforms. The site is an excellent example of integration of environmental and cultural values that favor an increase of cultural tourism for the benefit of communities and local businesses. However, the site should be subject to protection through initiatives to consolidate the fronts of slopes subject to rockfalls and often affected by the cavity collapses. In this sense, the most attention has been offered by the private rather than public sectors, including in these last the national, regional and local Authorities.