Regular navy duties include reconnaissance patrols in the Straits, supply runs to the outer islands and naval exercises, but it now has to include protection of fisheries, rescue missions, prevention of illegal entry and returning captured illegal entrants to the mainland.
除了海峽偵巡、外島運補及戰備演訓等平時任務加重外；護漁、緝私、救難、防制偷渡，和遣返大陸偷渡客等任務驟增。