PARMA — Authorities in Canyon County recovered the body of a Nampa man who drowned in the Snake River near Parma.

According to the Canyon County Sheriff's Office, the body of James L. Clure, 42, was found at about 5:45 Tuesday evening.

Clure fell out of his boat on the Snake River Sunday. His body was found more than a mile downstream from the boat launch at Martin's Landing west of Parma.

Clure is the second person to drown in Canyon County this year. A 28-year-old Caldwell man drowned in Lake Lowell in May.

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