Whenever you pay cards from your hand as a cost to play a fish, place those cards face up into your personal discard pile. (There is no shared discard pile.)
• The main function of your discard pile is for the benefit, which allows you to gain any card from your discard pile to your hand.
• Turn your discard pile sideways (as shown) and place it on the opposite side of your ocean mat, so you don’t accidentally confuse it with your open hand of cards.
• The cards in discard piles are public knowledge for all players.
• The order of your discard pile does not matter; you may reorder it whenever you’d like.
• EMPTY FISH DECK: In the unlikely event that the global fish deck is ever empty, shuffle all players’ discard piles together to form a new deck.