KAIKOHE - Environment Minister Marian Hobbs is due to visit weed-choked Lake Omapere in Northland on Wednesday to see the condition of the 1200ha lake.
Her visit comes as Maori trustees await word on Government money for more grass carp.
Lake trustees have helped to pay for an initial release of 8000 weed-eating carp into the lake, but thousands more fish and a management plan are needed to stop the waterway being choked by oxygen weed and algal bloom.
The trustees and their agent, Gray Jamieson, have sought more than $2 million from the Environment and Conservation Ministries to save the lake.
Ms Hobbs' lakeside appearance is in response to the carp funding request made to ministers in Wellington last month.
Hobbs off to visit lake
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