“Although we have plenty of white sharks here, the interactions with people are kept low because of the colder swimming water than they have in our southern states”
Anybody that’s spent any time in the ocean has been a lot closer to a shark on more occasions than they think.
Also, just like with bears and mountain lions....it IS their environment......WE are the intruders
Sharks, bears, and mountain lions do not have property rights.
But, the environment of sharks is not very friendly to humans, where the environment prefered by bears and mountain lions is exactly the type of environment humans desire and appreciate.
Bears and mountain lions live there because we allow them to live there.
There populations must be managed, and we are the only species which has the means to do so.
We are at the top of the food chain, not them.