A land redevelopment plan in a small Pingtung fishing township has drawn street protests, with residents fearing they will lose their homes and livelihoods to developers.

• Residents in Nanping, Donggang, formed a self-help group and unfurled protest banners outside a briefing on the redevelopment plan.
• They fear a repeat of an earlier land grab: a company once used fake registered residents to push a similar plan and was prosecuted, and the county government scrapped that project in 2017.
• Nearly half the land is publicly owned, and many residents rent it to run fish farms — they say compensation must cover the loss of that business.
• The self-help group wants tenants paid the equivalent of a third of the land's value after redevelopment.
• Organizers say the plan is still early — they need agreement from half of landowners to form a formal redevelopment association — and promise transparency and compensation within the law.

Outlook: Expect a drawn-out fight over compensation for fish-farm tenants as organizers try to gather enough landowner support to proceed.