To be honest, Florida always had trouble controlling their ecossystem threats (and even establish precise definitions of what such thing is). And now, once again, like a bunch of scared elephants, they stampede on a rush! with sudden rules that may cause much more damage than good; at least to the people who are not guilty at all and simply like to keep animals.
First of all, biology101, the balance of a certain natural grounding doesn't become threatened by the mere introduction of a new preadator. That only happens when he arrives to predate on entirely new species there. That's not the case. Gators eat the same a burm or anaconda does (and even more) and they have always been there. There were too many gators in the 30's, so it became permitted (and promoted) to shoot them. As a result, the gator population decreased so much that they were declared untouchable again by mid 70's. Today, there a lot of gators around again.. i wonder what they plan on doing this time?
Second, a meat eater can never become a true plague. Nature limits how much the population can grow (if numbers increase too much, most will starve and die). A red alert like the one they are implying would only make sense with species that wipe out vegetation. Those are the real possible problems because they are a threat to the very foundations of natural equilibrium.
What they are doing so far, is causing alarm and getting more and more people to dislike them.

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