When I lived in Fla, many years ago, shooting a shark was a perfectly normal thing to do.
People used to fish for sharks off the bridges only to drag them to the shore and kill them. It was just something to do on a hot summer night.
A 1/4” nylon rope with a wire leader, small inner tube for a bobber, and a rotten chicken for bait. Great fun on Tampa’s Gandy bridge.
Off the Anna Maria city Pier, (south side of Tampa Bay) some guy years ago caught about a 28 foot great white.
They killed it and still have a fiberglass model of it there.