You're welcome.
You can earn tech points faster by:
- Purchasing level 2 and 3 of Science (on the Tech menu)
- Having additional villagers trained as researchers
- Setting your game speed to 2x in the Options menu. Warning: Setting your game speed to 2x will also cause the food supply to deplete faster. Since your villagers don't have enough food as it is, I really don't recommend it.
About your crops: Did you have your villagers plant any?
The ability to fish requires
a certain puzzle to be solved and certain technology purchased. So does the golden child.
My advice is to concentrate on storing up food. Always have 1 child in your game so they can pick up mushrooms. Once they turn 14 they can't pick up mushrooms anymore but they can work. I hope this helps.