Last month, more than 300 merfolk from across the U.S. and Canada attended the California Mermaid Convention, which was, as convention co-founder Rachel Smith described it, “a three-day ‘shell ...

Self-proclaimed ‘merfolk’ create community, culture — and fins Posted August 21, 2024 10:59 am. By Michele Meyer, Shaw Local News Nework ...

An estimated 1,000 people in the United States are “professional mermaids” — that is, they don fishtails and fins and get paid to swim in tanks, pools and open water.

Spokane Merfolk co-founder Chandler Dean's mersona is Mermaid Minnow. She has an Instagram page (@MermaidMinnow) and a YouTube channel where she shows off her mermaid skills while making a splash ...

Erin Reed, Founder of Ocean State Merfolk shares her love of swimming with mermaid tails at the Smithfield YMCA twice a month with people coming from all over N ...