(reprinted from the Honolulu Advertiser)
■ I have followed the debate on the recent fatal shark attack on Maui with rising alarm. A recent article indicated that the state has taken the position that a control program is somehow environmentally, politically or culturally incorrect.
An absolute visionary genius would see that:
A. The tiger shark population is both growing and maturing into large, bold animals that are known to pose life-threatening hazards to swimmers, surfers, bathers and fishermen.
B. The possibility of more, and more serious, attacks is a statistical certainty.
C. When such attacks occur, when either a tourist, a surfer, a fisherman or a child is killed, perhaps in Waikiki, or Hanauma Bay. perhaps on video, that the stare will be forced to reinstate the tiger shark control…