The body of a missing fisherman from Augusta was recovered along the Kennebec River near Bath on Wednesday evening, the Maine Office of the Chief Medical Examiner confirmed Thursday.

Robert Stolt, 22, drowned, the medical examiner’s office said. His death was ruled an accident.

Crews from multiple agencies, including the Maine Marine Patrol and the U.S. Coast Guard, had been searching for Stolt in the area near Lines Island since Sunday evening.

The Maine Department of Marine Resources announced in a news release Thursday morning that a body had been recovered Wednesday evening on the shore of nearby Woods Island.

People spotted the body just before 6 p.m. Wednesday and called 911, the department said. Marine Patrol and Bath police officers recovered the body and transported it to a funeral home; it was later taken to the medical examiner’s office in Augusta, where it was identified as Stolt’s.

Stolt had been fishing from a 23-foot boat Sunday afternoon when he entered the river in an effort to save his dog, which had jumped into the water, the Maine Marine Patrol said in a statement Monday.

A second dog and a female passenger on Stolt’s boat also ended up in the river near Lines Island. The passenger and both dogs were rescued by other boaters, but Stolt did not resurface, U.S. Coast Guard Lt. Cmdr. Blake Maurer told the Press Herald on Monday.

The search for Stolt began Sunday evening but was paused late that night due to poor visibility. Marine Patrol boats, aircraft and a Maine Forest Service drone searched the area over the next three days until the body was found.

Stolt’s death is the latest in a recent string of emergency incidents, including multiple drownings, in and around Maine waterways. Earlier this month, two Maine teens — a 15-year-old from Farmington and an 18-year-old from Deer Isle — died in separate incidents while swimming in local ponds.

In May, a 74-year-old Florida man drowned in Damariscotta Lake while swimming after a boat that drifted away from him, and a drowning woman at York Beach was revived by a bystander who knew CPR.

Maine officials and water safety advocates are urging caution and preparedness among swimmers and boaters in light of the recent incidents.

Experts told the Press Herald this week that several issues may be factoring into the incidents in and around the water this summer, including a lack of swimming education, a scarcity of lifeguards and water temperatures that can remain dangerously cold, even when the air outside is warm.