Following calls from some fishermen for the Ministry of National Defense to use the military to protect fishing boats, on June 21 defense minister Lee Jye and legislative speaker Wang Jin-pyng led members of the Legislative Yuan's National Defense Committee on an excursion on a naval frigate to protect Taiwan's fisheries and assert ROC sovereignty over the Tiaoyutai Isands.
對於部分漁民主張以軍事護漁，國防部長李傑則於 21 日與立法院長王金平，率領國防委員會立委和記者搭乘軍艦赴蘇澳外海護漁並宣示釣魚台主權。