[@BeautifulSnow] you got tis booboo~
:3  it was in my understandin that mermaid enslaving had been going on for a long time, long enough that modt of the enslaved had died off and mermaids have gotten more aggressive at protecting themselves, xD its just a guess since the Phoenix crew had no idea that merfolk were even a thing i figured that mer slave trafficking must not be as prominent as it was in the past.