Plans to build a state-of-the-art hatchery and education facility on the footprint of the destroyed Mossom Creek Hatchery are taking shape.

With a cost initially pegged at $1.2 million, including corporate and community donations and in-kind services, a low-impact, innovative building is set to rise from the ashes and could be open by next spring.

At least that is the hope of the Burrard Inlet Marine Education Society (BIMES), whose team of volunteers is now planning and raising funds for the project.