The house I grew up in was on a canal in Miami. The canal went from the Everglades to Biscayne Bay. We had gators & sharks, depending on the tide. It was pretty cool, catch snook & tarpon from the dock, go a mile or 2 upstream & catch bass & bream (-: Then the Army Corp of Engineers came in with "flood control" in the early '60s & put up a dam about 1/2 mile upstream. Screwed to pooch on a lot of the fishing. What kind of misguided idiots thought they could regulate the everglades (also known as the "River of Grass") by damming up just SOME of the waterways leading from it????? For those of you that don't know, the watershed starts up around the Lake Okeechobee area & flows south, through every nook & cranny, exiting through swamps, mangroves & canals. Pretty much covers the entire southern half of the state. Damming up a few of the canals did nothing but screw up nature in those waterways & proved to be yet another expensive example of your tax dollars at work. New Orleans wasn't their first rodeo, & they obviously learned zip from the previous ones.
After living there, I moved to Tallahassee. Plenty of ponds, lakes & rivers full of gators. All this taught me that there is no such as a TAME gator, just 1 that has lost it's fear of humans. That is when they are truly dangerous!!