LAMOINE — Marine Patrol officials in Lamoine may have provided a clue to the identity of a man’s body recovered a month ago from ocean waters off Bar Harbor.

According to Sgt. Charles Rommel, the Marine Patrol has obtained records of a missing Nova Scotia fisherman presumed drowned at sea whose characteristics closely match those of the unidentified body.

Rommel said Monday the Marine Patrol had contacted officials with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in Nova Scotia after the body was discovered last month. Of the six missing persons on file with the RCMP, the Nova Scotia fisherman was the only one that might provide a match with the body, he said.

“We’re in the process of getting a match up,” Rommel said.

The Marine Patrol has forwarded the fisherman’s description to the state Medical Examiner’s Office in Augusta where officials will review the medical and dental records of the Nova Scotia man.

The lead is a preliminary one and may not be conclusive in the identification of the body, Rommel said. “Right now, it’s a little piece of a puzzle.”

Marine Patrol officials have ruled out the body being a Maine person including Bar Harbor fisherman Raymond Hodgkins who diasppeared with his 40-foot boat on June 18.

The body of a white adult male was spotted Aug. 9 by a whale-watching excursion boat about 12 miles southeast of Bar Harbor. Rommel said the body was clad like that of a Canadian fisherman with jeans, knee boots, and a snowmobile suit with a hood. The suit and the man’s shirt were of Canadian manufacture while the boots were made in Czechoslovakia. The body appeared to be that of a heavyset man, 5-feet, 4-inches tall, and between 40 and 55 years of age.