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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposes to initiate actions to rehabilitate the St. Vincent Island freshwater fishery and lakemarsh system. Five of the islands six lakes suffered a severe fish kill September, 1985 following Hurricane Elena. Rehabilitation actions will include mechanical manipulation of cattails along the edges of at least Oyster Pond cattails will be pushed out of the pond edges with a tractor and blade. Normal maintenance actions such as drawdowns, prescribed burning, fish restocking, and chemical control of pest plants are also proposed.